The uncommon appeal of clouds
By: Alexander McCall Smith
Series: An Isabel Dalhousie novel
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Canada
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780307361882
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Fiction
Description: Isabel, Jamie and Charlie are off to Highland Perthshire to visit an old schoolfriend of Isabel's, who married into a family of wealthy newspaper owners. A few weeks later, the Edinburgh press reports a major art theft from the friend's Highland estate, including a valuable Dutch masterwork that was going to pay the estate tax. In helping her friend and the team of lawyers to negotiate the ethical dilemmas of paying ransom for the painting's return, Isabel will face her first real criminals.
Notes: Issued also in electronic format.

Sequel to: The forgotten affairs of youth.